Woman arrested for DUI with infant in car

FORT MYERS: A woman is charged with a number of crimes after the Florida Highway Patrol says she was driving under the influence on I-75.

FHP got a call from someone who said they witnessed an accident on the interstate and the driver left the scene.

Trooper Jeff Rongish found Brittney Locke, 23, parked on the side on the road near the Palm Beach Boulevard exit, with the metal on the passenger side door partially sheared off.

Rongish said Locke was having trouble keeping her eyes open as she told him she was headed to Naples to get money from the father of her infant, who was in a car seat in the rear of the vehicle.

She allegedly said she did not know what she'd hit.

Locke allegedly said she was "exhausted" because she had to be up early to get to a methadone clinic in North Fort Myers, where she said she was being treated for a roxycodone addiction.

Rongish reportedly Locke failed field sobriety tests.

During a search of the vehicle, troopers allegedly found a xanax tablet, a plastic straw that appeared to be coated with drug residue and a prescription bottle for ibuprofen, which carried a warning about drowsiness or dizziness.

Troopers later determined Locke's vehicle had hit a guard rail near mile marker 138, causing $750 in damage to the guard rail.

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